Taylor Swift awkwardly dances with Jimmy Fallon
Taylor Swift is shaking off her bad dancing by doing as much of it as she can. On Tuesday’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” the host pretended that he was upset over Swift’s awards show dance moves because “that was our thing.”
“We were famous Jumbotron dancers,” he said, before throwing to a video montage of them (and a bunch of other New Yorkers) cutting a rug at various New York sporting events. The video showed Swift doing the robot, square dancing, doing the running man and the “Flashdance” choreography.
The unifying theme? Awkwardness!
Even though she is a chart-topping music queen, Swift has prided herself on her infamous lack of dancing skills. There is so much footage of the “Shake It Off” songstress gyrating awkwardly that there is in fact a Tumblr devoted entirely to that called – what else? – Awkward Taylor Swift Dancing.
Swift has recently come to embrace her lack of moves, particularly at awards shows like the Grammys, where Pharrell seemed less than impressed by her choreography.
“A couple years ago I just decided, ‘No. This is the coolest concert you could ever go to. This is like all these incredible acts playing their biggest songs and I get to be front row and I’m going to dance during this because I feel like it—and not because it looks cool, because it doesn’t,’” she said on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” last year.
The video for her hit single “Shake It Off” is in fact something of a celebration of her willingness to make a fool of herself on the dance floor. Swift said in an intro to the video, “life can be greatly reflected in your willingness to dance.”
The 25-year-old admitted that even though the dancers on set tried to show her how to twerk, she couldn’t quite pull that or much else off.
“I’m putting myself in all these awkward situations where the dancers are incredible, and I’m having fun with it, but not fitting in,” she told Rolling Stone. “They’re doing the most beautiful things, and I’m being embarrassingly bad at it. It shows you to keep being you, keep trying to figure out where you fit in in the world, and eventually you will.”
